Mia Hughes
@_CryMiaRiver
Senior fellow at MacDonald-Laurier Institute | Director of Genspect Canada | Co-host of Beyond Gender | Author of the WPATH Files
From lobotomies to deinstitutionalization, recovered memories and multiple personalities to today’s trans craze, the history of psychiatry is just a relentless march from one catastrophe to the next. One of my favourite McHugh quotes⬇️
🎙️ New Beyond Gender episode with Dr Paul McHugh Premieres tonight at 8 PM BST / 3 PM ET “We didn’t think we were making women out of these people. We thought we were helping them.” Then came the doubts. Then came the shutdown. The former Johns Hopkins psychiatrist reveals why…
Reading Lionel Penrose’s On the Objective Study of Crowd Behaviour and this is the most hilarious use of the word simply I’ve ever seen in my life.
The "less than 1% regret rate" in gender medicine can only be maintained by gender clinics doing no follow-up. Cass tried to set up a study to find out what became of the 9,000 kids who went through the Tavistock, but the adult gender clinics refused to cooperate. This is surely…
Author Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver : “I am absolutely convinced: if we did bombard kids with the same messaging that people can be born with innate amputee identities, if we put amputees into children's television shows, if surgeons advertise their amputee services, we could…
.@spaikin, former host of TVO's The Agenda, has a new podcast that he hopes will tackle difficult topics. For years, we begged him to take on the issue of paediatric gender medicine, but his producer wouldn't allow it. Now he's free to choose, who'd like to see him interview me?
And more to come, I hope: stevepaikin.com
“At Johns Hopkins, one surgeon told me, ‘You don’t know what it’s like for us every day to be cutting into healthy bodies because you psychiatrists can’t figure out what the problem is.’” In Beyond Gender, Dr Paul McHugh reveals the ethical doubts that ended the first gender…
The use of they/them pronouns throughout this piece almost melted my brain. It’s a sob story about an Alberta boy with an imaginary identity who’s upset that he can’t cheat at softball anymore. I feel secondhand embarrassment on behalf of the journalist. cbc.ca/news/alberta-t…
As always, I bought lots of teacups while in Nova Scotia. My husband jokingly suggested I use one in the car on the journey home. He should know me better by now not to joke about such things.
Yesterday, I went to a big reunion with friends I met 25 years ago in Taiwan. So many of my favourite people gathered in Nova Scotia, and there was much reminiscing about the precious years we spent together in Taiwan. And ever since, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about…
In Nova Scotia and we just stopped at an unmanned roadside fruit and vegetable stall. These operate on an honour system, relying on the honesty of citizens. We always end up with a carload of produce we don’t even need just because of the novelty of it. I ❤️ The Maritimes
